CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
Student loans are no longer necessary for learning how to be your own cat: see How to Be Your Own Cat. However, special tutoring is still essential for learning how to be your own kangaroo. From William and Mary's 1981 yearbook.
A seemingly nondescript photo, but if you can get to those benches midway down the path, you'll be well on your way to astral- or time-travel. From Wesleyan College (Macon GA)'s 1924 yearbook.
We verified that there's a ghost on the walkway, plus the lights may be used to facilitate astral or time travel. From Indiana University of Pennsylvania's 1985 yearbook.
This photo has no Halloween context; rather, it illustrates a page about how a campus brings together people of different backgrounds. From Northeastern Illinois' 1978 yearbook.
"Ducks don't eat sticks" is, to this very day, a Googlewhack. Hence all the futile attempts to feed ducks sticks through the decades. From Swarthmore's 1973 yearbook.